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              The Manoon  Volume X LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA., DECEMBER Iβ, 1931 Number 6 LOYOLA AWAITS XMAS HOLIDAYS I pr r ij 01 Ij r i a t m a a Blue Key Installs Local Chapter At Formal Banquet NATIONAL FRAT CHOSES TWELVE ACTIVE MEMBERS Temple H. Black, Editor-in- Chief of Student Paper, Is Unanimously Elected President THREE FACULTY MEN ELECTED TO HONOR Reising Is Elected Vice-President ; Girard Named Secretary; Ainsworth and Lozes Officers Twenty-four men, twelve active, three honorary and nine alumni were admitted to membership of Blue Key, national honorary student activity fraternity at its installation banquet in the Tyrolean Room of Kolb's Restaurant Monday night, December 14, at 6:00 p. m. Temple H. Black, Editor-inchief of the Maroon, president of the Glee Club and a senior in the college of arts and science was elected president by a unanimous vote of the chapter. Black was named unanimously because he was the founder of the local chapter of the national organization. Paul A. Reising, president : of the student council and senior ' in the college of arts and science was elected vice-president. Clet | A. Girard, Jr., student director of the Glee Club and post graduate student in the college of arts and science was named secretary. VACATION WILL BEGIN TUESDAY EVENING AT FIVE Arts and Science, Law Pharmacy and Dentistry Will Leave Study Grind For Two Weeks TREK HOMEWARD SEEN FOR OUT-OF-TOWN MEN Two Weeks Holiday Will Be Filled With Balls, Dances and Concluded On New Year's Eve When the final class of 1931 is ended at five o'clock Tuesday afternoon Loyola students will drop the old textbook in a convenient corner and turn their eyes on two weeks of comparative happiness, following three and one-half months of steady grinding in the pursuit after knowledge and a higher education. The pharmacist will leave his chemicals. The dentist will leave his daily "grind." The lawyers will probably study even on Christmas day for his mid-term exams (lawyers are the exception to the rule), and the Arts and Science DRAMATISTS TO PRESENT COMEDY CHRISTMAS WEEK Miss Amalie Buchmann and Marnell Segura Will Have Leads In Don Mullaly's "Laugh That Off" The Thespians and Auxiliary Thespians will open the activities of Christmas Week with a performance on Sunday night, December 20, at 8 P. M. in Marquette Auditorium of Loyola. The play to be presented is a three act comedy, "Laugh that Off" by Don Mullaly, it will be under the general direction of Alfred J. Bonomo, director of the Thespians.The cast includes some well known and capable performers, who have already been featured in past productions, it will also be the initial appearance, before the Loyola footlights, of several membeis who were recently admitted to the Society. The cast Thomas Smythe Succumbs After Short Illness Freshman Arts Student Dies After Unsuccessful Operation for Appendicitis Monday Night Thomas J. Smythe, freshman in the college of arts and science, died of a ruptured appendix early Thursday morning, it was announced yesterday by the Rev. J. A. Greeley, S. J., Dean of the College of Arts and Science. Young Smytht was stricken early in the week and doctors operated Monday in an effort to remove the appendix. The operation was unsuccessful and he died at 5:30 Thursday morning. The Rev. Ronald Mac Donald, S. J., administered the last Sacraments early Thursday. Smythe had just been initiated into the Upsilon Beta Lambda fraternity last week. As we go to press the time of the funeral had not been announced.The entire university was astounded by the news of his death and the student body joins with the Maroon in extending sympathy to the parents of Thomas J. Smythe. Olympic Fund Winners To Be Chosen Today Campaign To Send Toppino, Beeson and Two Flynns To Los Angeles Is Huge Success The thirteen prize winners in the Olympic campaign being conducted by the Loyola Student Council in an effort to send representatives to the trials at Los Angeles, in June, will be named today at 12:30 p. m. in Marquette Auditorium it was announced last night by George Leppert, chairman of the Olympic Fund Committee.Leppert further stated that the tickets were going at a great clip but there is still time this morning for students to get theirs. Ably assisted by thirty of the school's best ticket vendors Leppert has succeeded in disposing of approximately 1500 cardboards and stubholders will learn the results today at noon. Vouchers will be tendered the lucky winners and these may be exchanged for the concrete prizes at any time Leppert said. The Student Council expects to go over the top for their quota PRESIDENT HYNES PRESENTS KEY Courtesy Item-Tribune. TEMPLE BLACK, president of Blue Key, national honorary student activity fraternity, receiving the key emblematic of member-1 ship from the REV. J. W. HYNES, S. J., president of the university, who administered the pledge and presented the keys at the installation. The REV. J. A. GREELEY, S. J., the REV. F. L. JANSSEN, S. J., and WILLIAM DARDIS, one of the charter members, are looking on. IF FACULTY OK'S PETITION HOLIDAYS WILL BEGIN TODAY Student Council Awaits President's Answer To Petition Presented Last Wednesday The Student Council, at a meeting on Tuesday last, drew up a petition to be presented to the Reverend John W. Hynes, S. J., president of the University, requesting that the Christmas vacation being on the evening of Friday, December 18 instead of Tuesday, the 22nd. The request for this premature cancellation of classes was prompted mainly by the fact that Christmas, falling on a Friday this year, allows the students only twelve days of vacation as against the usual number of fourteen days. If the request is granted, the usual allotment will be had this year also. In consideration of the distance that many students must travel to go home for the Christmas season and the time element involved, the request is especially lucrative. At present, the matter is still under the advisement of the faculty and no definite word could be had as to whether it was favorably received or not. Acting upon the suggestion of the Student Activity Board, the Council also discussed the matter of students being allowed to wear letter sweaters won in high schools. The discussion was quite heated pro and con and in the end it was decided to let the matter rest until the next meeting, during which time the matter will be individually discussed with the students themselves. Lawyers Hold 2nd Moot Trial Before Friends Levet and Echezabal Represent Plaintiff While Betts Is Attorney For Landlord and Lafargue For Gas Co. Before a crowded courtroom of Loyola students and their friends the Law Department held its second moot court of the year on Sunday, December 13, at 9:30 A. M. in division E, of Civil District Court. The court was presided over by Mr. Jacob Dresner with Judge Byrnes and Mr. M. Scharff directing the court procedure. The case was that of Anderson vs. Shreveport Gas Co., et al., which entailed a suit in tort for the death of his wife as a result of a gas explosion caused by a leakage in a defective gas pipe. The litigants were represented by Seniors from the day and night law class, Claude Levet and Alden Echezabal for the Plaintiff, William Betts for the landlord and Malcolm Lafargue for the Gas Co. The jury, which was composed mostly of outsiders, rendered a verdict of $6000 in favor of the Plaintiff against the landlord. There were many who disagreed with the verdict claiming that the stronger case was against the Gas I Co., but the decision was so rendered and it will stand. The fact that Lafarge was able to win the jury over to his side and obtain SODALITY COUNCIL PLANS PILGRIMAGE TO CONVENT JAN. 8 Will Commemorate Battle Of New Orleans By Demonstration Parade Next Month The New Orleans Council of ! College Sodalities, at a recent I meeting, formulated plans for a pilgrimage to be held on January 8 to the Ursuline, Convent on I State Street. The occasion is the commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. It is the proud boast of local Catholics and of the Usurline Nuns in particular, that this battle was won in the face of overwhelming odds only through the intercession of the [ Mother of God which was sought and gained by the incessant prayers of the good Sisters. Every year, they reserve this day as a special feast day of their own and this year they have invited all of the College Sodalities of the city 1 to participate with them in their j festivities. It was decided first, that all High School Sodalities will be issued a cordial invitation to attend and take part in the pilgrimage. I Since then, the Student Council 1 of Loyola informed of the plan, has expressed the wish to have the invitation extended to the Loyola Student body as a whole. Open House Will Follow Soviet Debate Question Arguments For and Against Recognition Of The United States Of Soviet Russia Discussed By Arguers The recognition of the United States of Soviet Russia by the United States of America will be discussed by the members of the Loyola Debate Society at their regular bi-weekly meeting Monday night in Marquette auditorium. An open house discussion will follow a debate by Edward Eeghers, John D. Schilleci, James Steiner and Nicholas Masters. Steiner and Masters will uphold the affirmative of the question against Seghers and Schilleci. At their last meeting the society voted unanimously in favor of centralized control of industries in the United States, after a debate and open house discussion.Debaters upholding the affirmative side of the issue were FelicienC P A's Bestow Signal Honor on Finance Regent The Rev. Joseph A. Butt, S. J., Is Elected To Honorary Membership In Louisiana Accounting Society Announcement was made last week that the Rev. Joseph A. Butt, S. J., regent of the school of commerce and finance at Loyola university, had been elected to honorary membership in the Louisiana State Society of Certified Public Accountants. This is a singular honor to come to a Loyola professor because of the fact that he is one of five men who have been elected to that posjtion in the accountant's society during its twenty years of existence. E. A. Saliers, head of the commerce department of Louisiana State university, merited the same honor as the Loyola professor. Father Butt merited the honor because of his activity in the accounting field, while a professor at Loyola. His unusual ability as an accountant and his genial personality have made him one of the most popular men among the accountants in New Orleans. This is the second time in a few months that Loyola university | professors have merited high honors in the accountants' organizations. Henry \V. Miller, professor of the night department was recently elected president of the National Society of Certified Public Accountants. FRESHMEN REIGN SUPREME FOR ONE DAY OVER SOPHS First Year Men Lay Violent Hands on Upperclassmen; Amato's Moustache Shaved After being the underdogs for four months, Loyola Freshmen assumed command of the campus, on Monday, December 14, and expressed their hatred of their traditional enemies, the sophomores, with belts, eggs and other instruments of vengeance. Headed by Dominic Genard, their president, the Freshmen corraled every sophomore in sight and haled them before a "kangaroo court," where they proceeded to find every second year man guilty of some offense. The court then adjourned to the campus in the rear of Marquette Hall where the Freshmen formed a belt line, and forced the sophs to run the gauntlet. Though there was a general tendency towards the use of belts, several sophs were forced to their knees and compelled to roll eggs about the paved walks. One of the high spots of the day came when the Freshmen laid violent hands on Jacob Amato, who had been making life miserable for the freshmen, and clipped away part of his well kept mustache.(Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) U. S. POSTAGE lc Paid New Orleans, La. Permit No. 716